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lUNlTE STARS' FTNT @FFTQFM SAMUEL W. FISH, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY,ASSIGNOR TO TAYLOR IRON & STEEL COMPANY, 0F HIGH BRIDGE, NEW JERSEY, ACORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SAFE OR VAULT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 1911.

Application filed March 10, 1910. Serial No. 548,489.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, SAMUEL WV. FISH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safes or Vaults, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to safes or vaults, and more particularly to safeor vault bodies, the object of the invention being to provide a safe orvault body with an improved form of door holding means without thenecessity of providing an inwardly extending flange for carrying suchdoor holding means.

A further object of the invention is the Y provision of a safe or vaultbody with door holding lugs integral with the body, but so located thatthey will be supported at different points, without the necessity ofproviding an inwardly extending flange for carrying the lugs, andreference is hereby made to my contemporaneously pending applicationSerial No. 537,645, filed January 12, 1910, and my contemporaneouslypending allowed application Serial No. MSAEST, filed March 10, 1910, inwhich different forms of the present improvement are shown.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification,Figure 1 is a front view of a safe or vault body, with a part thereofbroken away and in section; Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken inline 2-2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of a portion of thebody jamb, showing one of the lugs; Fig. l is a similar view to thatshown in Fig. 3, with a portion thereof broken away and in section toshow the manner of supporting the lugs; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of aportion of the jamb.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughoutthe figures of the drawings.

The safe or vault body 2 may be made of any suitable or desired form,and is provided with a door-way 3 formed by a jamb forming member fl,shown as inwardly extending in the present instance, having in the rearthereof and spaced apart therefrom an inwardly extending flange 5. Asthe construction is preferably adapted for use with a circular or rotarydoor the jamb forming member and the inwardly extending flange are ofannular formation, and the jamb forming member is provided with atapered surface 6 for t-he reception of a tapered rotary door 7. I

Located at intervals around the jamb is a plurality of door holding lugsS integral with both the jamb forming member and the annular inwardlyextending flange, so that the lugs are thus carried and supported byboth the jamb forming member and the annular flange at separated points.

For suitably bracing the inwardly extending flange, and also the lugs,integral ribs 9 are provided between the j amb forming member and theinwardly extending flange, these ribs being preferably located at apoint where they will also support the lugs, and for this purpose theyare shown integral with the lugs, see Fig. Ll. The lugs are shown widerthan the ribs, see Fig. 1. Thus it will be observed that each lug iscarried and supported by not only the jamb forming member, but by theinwardly eX- tending flange, and also by a rib integral with both thejamb forming member and the flange as well as with the side walls of thebody.

The rotary door hereinbefore referred to is also provided with lugs 10cooperating with the body lugs for holding the door against withdrawal.

In practice suitable means will be provided for preventing rotation ofthe door after it is closed. Any suitable form of door may be used, butin the present instance it is shown as comprising a body 11 having aninwardly extending flange 12.

By forming the body around the doorwa in the manner set forth it will beobserved that the casting may be made without any regard to the mass ofmetal around the door-way so that the parious parts of the structure atthis point may be maintained substantially uniform, which is desirablewhen the casting is made of unmachinable metal, such for instance asmanganese steel, and heat treated, since it prevents the setting up ofundue strains in the casting at this point. This formation also,however, facilitates the forming of the casting even when the structureis made of other forms of metal. The forming of the lugs integral, int-he manner shown, is much prefer able, but it will be obvious that inview of the manner in which the lugs are supported they could be formedseparate and rigidly secured by bolts to the connecting ribs between thejamb forming member and the inner annular flange, and also to the flangeif desired, without departing from the scope of this invention. V

I claim as my invention:

l. A safe or vault body having a dooropening provided with a jambsurface, a plurality of door holding means supported rigidly adjacentthereto, and a flange spaced apart from said jamb and supporting saiddoor holding means.

2. A safe or vault body having a dooropening provided with a jambsurface, a plurality of door holding moans supported rigidly adjacentthereto, a flange spaced apart from said jamb and supporting said doorholding means, and ribs located between said jamb forming member andflange. n

3. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by an inwardly extendingmember terminating in a jamb surface, a plurality of door holding` meanssupported rigidly adjacent thereto, a flange spaced apart from said jamband supporting said door holding means, and ribs located between said jamb forming member and flange and also supporting said door holdingmeans.

4. A safe or vault body Vhaving a dooropening provided with a jambsurface, a plurality of door holding means integral with said jambforming member, and a flange spaced apart from said jamb and integralwith said door holding means.

5. A safe or vault body having a doorway formed by an inwardly extendingmember terminating in a jamb surface, a plurality of door holding meansintegral with said jamb forming member, a flange spaced apart from saidjamb and integral with said door holding means, and ribs between saidjamb forming member and flange and integral therewith.

6. A safe or vault body having' a dooropening provided with a jambsurface, a plurality of door holding means integral with said jambforming member, a flange spaced apart from said jamb and integral withsaid door holding means, and ribs between said jamb forming member andflange and integral therewith and also integral with the door holdingmeans.

7. A safe or vault body having a doorway provided with an annulartapered j amb surface and having spaced apart from said j amb surface aflange, and door holding lugs secured in position adjacent to said jambsurface and supported by said flange.

8. A safe or vault .body having a doorway provided with an annulartapered j amb surface and having spaced apart from said jamb surface anannular flange, door holding lugs secured in position adjacent to said jamb surface andsupported by said flange, and ribs supporting the underside of said lugs.

9. An integral safe or vault body having a circular door-way providedwith a tapered jamb surface, an annular flange spaced apart from saidjamb surface, and door holding lugs integral with said body-and withsaid flange.

10. An integral safe or vault body having a circular door-way providedwith a tapered j amb surface, an annular flange spaced apart from saidjamb surface, door holding lugs integral with said body and with saidflange, and ribs integral with the body and with the flange.

ll. An integral safe or vault body having a circular door-way providedwith a tapered jamb surface, an annular flange spaced apart from saidjamb surface, door holding lugs integral with said body and with saidflange, and ribs integral with the body and with the flange and withsaid door holding lugs.

12. An integral safe or vault body having a circular doorway providedwith a tapered j amb surface, an integral annular flange spaced apartfrom said jamb surface, and door holding lugs integral with said bodyand with said flange.

13. An integral safe or vault body having a circular door-way providedwith a tapered j amb surface, an annular flange spaced apart from saidjamb surface, door holding lugs integral with said body and with saidflange, and ribs integral with the body and with the flange and alsowith said door holding lugs, said ribs being of less thickness than thelength of the lugs. p

14. An integral safe or vault body having a circular door-way andprovided with a tapered j amb surface integral with the body, rearwardlyextending lugs, an annular flange integral with the body and extendinginwardly thereof and spaced apart from said jamb surface and integralwith the lugs at the rear sides thereof.

l5. An integral safe or vault body having a circular door-way andprovided with a tapered j amb surface integral with the body, rearwardlyextending lugs, an annular flange integral with the body and extendinginwardly thereof and' spaced apart from said jamb surface and integralwith the lugs at the rear sides thereof, and ribs integral with the bodyand with the flange and with said lugs.

SAMUEL WV. FISH. Vitnesses EMMA NEIGHBOUB, Howiran WV. WYCKOFF.

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